White Whale Games Introduces 'Slayers'

and other new ways to play in the God of Blades world

"...Just when you think the team at White Whale Games are resting on their "Best of Austin"-worthy..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Playback: White Hats at the White Horse

The White Horse expands its empire – into nonprofits and a record label

"...Since opening in late 2011, the White Horse has provided community essentials: homegrown roots music, inexpensive..."

May 30, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

White Noise

Can Don DeLillo's postmodern landmark make it to the actual future?

"...world of Noah Baumbach’s ambitious, hilarious, but ultimately uneven White Noise, a film nestled somewhere between "fever-dream period piece"..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Day Trips: Whale-watching

Washington state offers an exciting escape from the summer heat

"...Whale-watching off the Washington coast is a little like playing..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

In the Heart of the Sea

Ron Howard sets sails with that famous Nantucket whale story

"...partly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick; or, the Whale in 1851. Howard, working with screenwriter Charles Leavitt, has..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Darkness With a Twist of Dime-Store Novel

White Whale Games brings the pulp-fiction aesthetic into the Aughties

"...That's what Austin-based company White Whale Games – made up of Studio Director Jo..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

Drawing Conclusions With Monstrocards

Locally made card/drawing game offers respite from the heat

"...into the AC. But don’t fret! Local game studio, White Whale, has the perfect way to wait out the..."

June 14, 2015 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

'Chrome Underground' Goes Classic Car Hunting

Motoreum's Yusuf & Antonio talk about the biz and their reality TV debut

"...in Mexico City in search of your own personal white whale, a 1937 Bugatti Type 57, one of the..."

May 22, 2014 Screens Post by Jordan Smith

FF2012: Day One of Fantastic Arcade

It's all about money, stories, and nerds.

"...showing off the beauty of The Banner Saga and White Whale Games discussing the bookish roots of God of..."

Sept. 20, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Moby's Play

Playwright Kirk Smith talks about trying to squeeze a great white whale into a tiny theatre with his adaptation of Moby Dick for Vortex Repertory Company's Summer Youth Theatre.

"...found a way to squeeze not only that monstrous whale into the Vortex, but also the vast sea, the..."

July 19, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

OroBianco Italian Creamery Makes Magic With Water Buffalo Milk

Making mozzarella from white gold

"...The opening line reads, "Buffalo mozzarella is the Great White Whale of American cheesemaking: a dream so exotic and..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Mixed Metaphors

These craft cocktails are for the books

"...Book: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson..."

June 17, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Moby Dick

In Kirk Smith's stage adaptation of Moby Dick, language comes forth in great waves, in storms of words, soaking our brains with images of the sea, of a white whale, and of a mad captain's pursuit of it, and while the Vortex Repertory Company Summer Youth Theatre production may not always convey every nuance of every line, it does communicate the feel of a life at sea, danger and dread, and the roles played by Destiny and Death.

"...Moby Dick: Study of Mortality in Blue and White..."

July 26, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Bride of Frankenstein

"...Directed by: James Whale. Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson..."

June 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In Play: 'Dishonored' & 'God of Blades'

Two new games from local developers

"...Studios (developer) Playstation3, Xbox 360, PC, $59.99 God of BladesWhite Whale Games (developer) App Store, $2.99..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

McFarland, USA

Despite heavy sports-underdog cliches, this film with Kevin Costner as the coach of an all-Latino high school track team taps into a lot of modern realities.

"...surprise to be able to say that as Jim White, the initially reluctant but formative coach of a tiny,..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Darren Aronofsky to be Honored by Austin Film Festival

Fest features Bob Saget's final film, new Laura Poitras doc

"...as Black Swan, The Wrestler and the upcoming The Whale, has just been announced as the recipient of this..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Shark Tale

Animated Shark Tale lacks bite.

"...Sopranos’ Imperioli), and his best friend, the reluctant great white vegetarian Lenny (Black), feel as formulaic as they are,..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ruins

Four friends on a Mexican vacation discover something evil among the Mayan ruins.

"...Ramsey and Joe Anderson. In his short story "The White People," Welsh author and dark fantasist Arthur Machen offered..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hoax

Playing the con artist Clifford Irving, who notoriously forged the autobiography of Howard Hughes, Richard Gere has one of the best roles of his career.

"...that the notoriously reclusive and enigmatic Hughes was the white whale of the publishing business in the 1970s: ungettable..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Frankenweenie

Tim Burton’s animated, black-and-white movie about a boy and his dog is sweetly filtered through the lens of Frankenstein and other famous monsters.

"...well-documented love of the Universal monsters (in particular James Whale's Frankenstein and its superior sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein),..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Miracle

Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star in this fact-based story that shows us that whales are mammals too.

"...of an actual 1988 rescue operation of three gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, is based,..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Invasion of the Kiddie-Lit Plays

Characters from children's literature storm Austin-area stages in July.

"...And witches and jabberwocks and calico cats and white rabbits and red queens and a great white whale...."

July 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Power Up

SXSW Gaming Expo and 'The Austin Chronicle' present Game On Austin

"...1934. Not that you need another reason to purchase White Whale Games' God of Blades from the App Store,..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Hunting Moby-Spam

Austin spam-fighter goes forth to battle the kings of e-trash

"...post office boxes to which spam-related mail is sent.The White Whale..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Mastodon

Record review

"...these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself," wrote Herman Melville in Moby Dick 155 years..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Grey Rain at Graceland

"...adequate. It is impossible to imagine anyone inhabiting the all-white living room, white sofa, white chairs, white rug, white..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Fashion Freak Out

"...with pursed lips. Most seemed to be having a whale of a somber, poetic time, except for those completely..."

Feb. 18, 2008 Design Post by Sofia Resnick

Elizabeth Crook’s The Which Way Tree

Chasing revenge on the Texas frontier in this remarkable new novel from the author of Monday, Monday

"...but it casts as long a shadow as the White Whale, with settlers from the Hill Country to the..."

March 9, 2018 Books Review by Robert Faires

Playback: Austin Music Awards (On Everything)

Austin Music Industry Awards down, here come the 2016/17 AMAs and a slew of SXSW buzz acts

"...age called the Eighties. For music cognoscenti, it's our white whale: seeing artists in small clubs before they ascend..."

March 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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